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SANDERSVILLE, GA.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2L 1880.
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Urenl Force! Fires, Ktc.
The Army and Navy Register publiaboe
the following: Secretary Whitnoy has de
termined to iuuludo in tho list of now truis-
ora for which proposals are to bo invltod the
large unarmorod cruiser authorized by the
bill passed two wooks ago to increaso tho uo-
val establishment, and has directed that for
this vessel tho plans prepared by Chief Con
structor Whlto, of England, for tho ship
known os u No. 27,” ho usoJ. Theso plans con*
tomplntea vos*el of greater power nn.l speed
than any cruiser now afloat—-in fact, the
vory highost powered vessol of tho kind in
(lie world at tho timo of completion. The
principal dimensions of tho vessel nro as fol
lows: Longtli over nil, 835 feet; beam, ox-
tremo, 43 feet H inches; draft, mean, ill foot
flinches; load displa oinaut, 4,418 tons; indt-
< ated hoi^o power, Lo. 5(0, forced combus
tion; twin screws; estimated speed, nineteen
knots.
The ship has two military masts, no sail
Power except storm sails; coni capa Ity about
WK) tons. Tho complement of men is 320. Tuo
main bnttery consists of four 8-inch an 1 hIx
fl inch hreceh-loading rifle's: secondary bat
tery, eight 57-singlo-sliot Hutjlikis-| guns,
two 31-rovolvor madiiue guns aud one
Bhort Gatling. Tin hull will lie con
st! noted of stoel throughout, with double
bo.tom running tho entiro length of
tho machinery s(aco, or 150 feet.
Tho outor pint'll^ varios from thirty potm Is
to loveiitoon mid ouo half pounds, the ordi
nary woiglit hoing twenty pounds per square
foot. The machinery, magazine's, sholl rooms,
torpedo rovtns and steering gear nro plocod
holowau armored deck, which is four imdios
thick ou its sloping bides and two and one-
half inches on the horizontal part amidships,
A Teat In Surgery.
A remarkable surgical operation lias just
boon performed ut the Massachusetts (Ion*
o.al Hospital, Boston, by Dr. M. H. itichnid-
soii of that. city. About a year ago John
McCarthy swallowed a sot of artlllclul teeth,
which passod through tho trsophngtis and
lodged in tho cardiac oriitco of tho
stomneh. Borne months ngo an attempt wns
mode by a surgeon to remove tho obstruct ion
by tho introduction of an instrument into the
miophagus through tho mouth, hut to no
purpose. Tho passage of food to tho stomach
being almost wholly prevented, the patient
bocamo very much emaciated and vory wtak,
nud it wns evident that unless rollef was Boon
bad ho must die. After having had tlia cast
under observation at tlio hospital for
a ihort timo Dr. Xichardsou determined
upon opening tho stomach. llo
made a transveis) cut iu the left side of 1 ho
nbdomeh, through which tho stomach wns
dru.vu aud then opened, when Dr. Richardson
washable to reach and removo the teeth. Tho
internal opouing was thou dosed with flue silk
nud the ston ach replaced, the external cut
being also closed with stit hes. The whole
operation wns completed in forty-five min
utes. The patient is doing well, and his com
plete recovory is now considered certain.
Tho Great Pores! Fires.
A Fort Howard (Wis.) dispatch says: Ro-
porti from tho groat Arcs have not been at
nil o-nggerntoil. Fort Howard nud Green
Hay nro enveloped in douse smoke, and
all aronnd the outskirts of tho town
can ho seen tho tlamos as they
hurst from tho distant woods. Evory-
thlug is ns dry us tiudor, and the fence* and
glass along the tracks are either burned or
aro now burning. North of Little Creok is
a large cranberry swamp in Which the bushes
are all on ilro and burning flercoly. dno of
the most peculiar elfo -ts of tho fire is the ac
tion of the animals, whi h seem to bo nppro-
henslvo of some great danger. Tho
cattle and horsoi huddle together, forget
ting to fcod, and si amp the ground restively.
Around Greon Bay tho ’ clnntago ItnS lieou
heavy, hut the greatest Joss ltns been suf
fered in tho Oconto region. Lnat Monday
night tho lire readied Depere, and burned
fifty-one buildings, Including a church and
several stores. Tho fires, according to the
latest reports, aro rapidly dying out, and un
less a gale of wind should spring up will
cause little more damage.
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Hurricanes in tho West.
During a win:! storm a large double Ice
house at Mitchell, Madison County, 111., was
blown down, aud four tramps wlm had taken
refuge hi tho building woro killed. 1 ho
building was about half full of ice, and was
ru o 1 to tlie ground.
At the afternoon performance of a circus
in Hditin, Mo., a tremendous wind torin camo
up, tearing tho immenso canvas from tho
poles. Tho wholo foil to the ground, burying
treat. numbers of men, women and children
beneath the canvas and creating a panic
which resulted in a number of persons being
seriously in iured.
A hurricane passed over Keokuk. Iowa, do
ing great damage to buildings and leveling
feueos and trees. Numbers of husinn s
house! woro unroofed and the spire of the
Fir.t Baptist Church was blown down. C. n-
sidurablo loss was entailed in the lunibor
district.
Throughout Iowa and in portions of 1111-
no's a violent storm has greatly injured
crops. '
HYDROPHOBIA IH BAY CITY.
DEPARTMENT
H supplied with all the requisites for doing
all kinds of Job and Book work in First-
Clasa Stylo, Promptly and at Rear
aonable Trices.
WEDDING CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
„ BALL CARDS,
POSTERS,
HANDBILL8,
PROGRAMMES,
HT ATE ME NTS,
LETTER HEADINGS,
DODGERS,
PAMPHLETS,
ETC.. ETC.. EfO
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
HAPPENING8 OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINT8.
BASE BALL ROTES.
DEKALB’S STATUE.
A Young Man liltten l>r a I’et Dog in tlis
Throes of Heath.
Etliclbert Smithson, aged 10, of Bay
City, Mich., had u finger bitten by a pet
dog, which died. It had exhibited un
mistakable signs of hydrophobia. No
attention was paid to the wound until
Tuesday. The young man ltad retired
apparently in his usual health, hut soon
awakened the family with his barking
and growling. Physicians were sum
moned and at once pronounced the case
hydrophobia. His paroxysms were so
violent and desperate lie had to he
chloroformed. lie has been removed to
the county jail and manacled to his bed.
HANGED HIMSELF.
The Assistant Postmaster. of Danville Tired
of 13 fe.
S. W. Armstrong, ussistant postmaster
at Danville, Va., committed suicide
Sunday by hanging himself to a gas pipe
in the basement of thepostofficc building.
He left a letter saying he wns tired of
life. Nothing is wrong in his accounts.
He leaves a wife and three daughters.
Tho deceased wus a prominent man here,
and wns past noble grand master in the
order of Odd Fellows. He came here
several years ago from Hampton, Va.,
and was a lawyer.
An Actor’s Sensational Snlclde.
A real tragedy of tho theatre has occurred
it Casalo, a town of Piedmont,Jn Northern
Italv An actor, who was playing a iead-
- J «'e audle
iusr nart. inueu w picc^o ....-fence, who
displayed their disapproval by prolonged
i hissing The actor stopped suddenly in his
lines aud, advancing to tins footlighfa, drew
' a revolver and rhot himself dead.
! His wife, who was seated in a box, wit
nessed the tragedy, and in a frenzy attempted
to u»p to the noor beneath, which was quite
I ' distance. She was restrained by several
friends who were in her company, and was
finally carried from the theatre unconscious.
KANTKKM AND MIDDLE STATES.
The strikes in the leather shops of Pea
body and Salom, Mass., liavo resulted In as
saults and riotous disturbances.
.Uollin M. Squire, the New York Com
missioner of Public Works, aud Maurice B.
Flynn, the contractor who was practically
running that office, have beon indicted by
the Grand Jury for conspiracy. "They both
gave bail.
TnnEK young daughters of Henry Wyman,
n Far Rockawav (Long Island) fisherman,
were drowned while bathing.
The nnnunl convention of tho National
Association of Ameri an Rankers oponod on
the 11th in Boston. Representatives of the
banking interests in all parts of tho country
wore prose it, nud various papers of import
ance to financiers were rea l and disettssod.
William Boyd, an aged millionaire, wns
struck by an oxpress train notir his homo at
Wnlkor's Mills, Penn., and instantly killed.
Hon. Lewis Beach, Congi-ecumin of-tlie
Fifteenth New York DUtrTct, died at his
homo, Cornwall on the Hudson, a few day!
sinco, ng«d fifty-one years.
The New York Beptibli -an State Com
mittee decided on tho 11th to hold no Btnte
Convention tills fnll, hut that a candidatefoi
Asso -into Judge of the Court of Appeals be
nominutod by tlie Committee at a subse
quent meeting.
Dr. Frank II. Hamilton, n noted sur
geon anil one of Clio doctors in attendance
noon President Garfield, died in Now York
tho other day, in liissovonty-tliird year.
MicttAKLi Mezzi was hanged at Union-
town, Bonn., for tho murder of n fellow Ital
ian liamoi Cossidonto, the motive being rob
bery.
| GREAT CROWDS AT TIIE UNVEIL
ING IN ANNAPOLIS.
Unveiling ofthe llronan Statue at Annapo
lis. Aid.
The ceremonies attending tho unvcil-
Bavannaii has won fourteen straight
Ramos.
Ferguson, the Philadelphia pitcher, Is
the terror of League batsmen.
Gov. Bullock, of Goorgia, Is one of the
stockholders in tho Atlanta club.
Despite their low position, the Bostons ; nvl , ,, - ,
have drawn 70,000 people to their games at ^ °‘ ,llc DcKnlb statue on Monday,
home. caused tho historic old city of Annnpolis,
Dunlap, tho St, Louts second baseman, M'U to awaken from tho lethargy with
has boon sold to tho Detroit Loaguo nine for%Dvhich it is usually enwrapped. Fully
a argosum. 10,000 strangers were in attendance and
(Asscsws ss? ass ays't s.,r ‘ > ° c r ua - <* t °!
Washington J 1 lie occasion. Tlie statuo is considered
Tub New England League has had less !7, Ust work of the young sculptor,
trouble with its umpires tbnn an; other base Lphrnim Kcyscr, to whom the work wns
ball organization. * given by cx-Secretary Frclinghuyscn. It
Detroit's big right fielder, Thompson, represents a German soldier in Conti-
othri'l 0 ™, '‘V:?. 0 L uoual cntchos thau “y ncntal uniform with a sword upheld nnd
Tiif Mmiin™ !), _ , .. . . 18 11 ningniflecnt bronze work, measuring
‘"7 mounted Oh u granit?
playore has bteu formed. pcaeslnl thirteen feet high. It is erected
on n knoll nt the south end of tha. state
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
SOUTU AND WEST.
Liortnino rtriick the main stablo of th»
Omaha (Neb.) Fair Association, killing eight
valuable trotters.
A mm at Eggleston, Wis„ destroyed a
largo grain elevator uud sovuntcon loaded
freight cars. Four tramps asloop lit a car
woro burned to death aud throo others
soveroly injured,
An F.l i'a-o (Terns) dispatch of tho dth
stated that tli - excitement ovor the imprison-
numt of Cutting, tlie Amoi icn-i oditor, was
intansilled, and Mint the .Mexif-an authorities
would is'lica l their prt-onoi-in case a rescue
wn< attonipted. 8s retary Bayard wns re
ported to Imvo made a final demand for Cut
ting's release.
Two men returning from a picnic at
Blrdssye, Ind., wove shot dead by Thomas
Hobbs and his a >n, James. A crowd of tOO
uiou captured tho murdorors and hanged
them to a tree.
Rev. Mam Jones, tho Southern rovivnllst,
has boon preaching to great crowds at Lan
caster, Oh o.
Ex-Gove.nor John W. Stevenson of Ken
tucky diod tho othor dav in Covington, aged
sovonty-tbroo yenrs. Ho was President of
tho Domocrntlc National Convention which
nominated Genornl Hancock for tho Presi
dency.
The boiler of a thrashing machine on a
farm near JciTcrson, tVis., exploded tho
other day with horrifying effect. Kugiuoor
Anthony Klein anil his son, Joseph Leitor
and ills ten-year-oiil hoy, and Joseph Haas
were instantly killed. Another of Lester's
sous, agod eight years, and a man named
Fisher were fatally s aided.
Mils. Martin Stouqii, of Conneaut. Ohio,
and her three daughters, agod fifteen, thirteen
and eight years rosiioctlvely, woro drowned
a few days sinco in a crook. Mr. 8tough'*
grief drove him mad.
Durino tho trial of the Chicago Anarchists,
tho prisoners woro daily recipients of num
erous bouquets and other floral offerings.
Tub Indiauupolis Democrat* at tlioir State
Convention in Indinna|iolis nominated a
Ktnto ticket headed by John C. Nelson for
Lieutenant-Governor nnd ndnpteda platform
which cordially approves Cleveland's admin
istration: favors a financial policy “in which
gold and silver coin ami pa|>or money readily
convertible into coin, including tho volume
of tho United States notes now provided by
law, shall bo tlio circulating mo liuminsists
upon a reduction of tho Treasury surplus in
payment of tho National debt, and opposee
“all sumptuary laws and prohibition legisla
tion.»
Robbers killed Bernard Martin, ot
Weaver, Arizona, his wifu nnd two children,
and then burned tho hodio*. Martin had
sold his ranch for *4,00J, and with this sum
had started with ills family for Erie, Penn.
Thomas Bondy, the son of a Baptist min
ister at Graysvillo, Tonn., attempted to whip
Johu Davis, a young farmer, for visiting ills
sister. Davis boat Bendy to death, crushing
his skull witli n stone. At this juncture the
futbor of Bendy intorforred. He and Davis
fought wiqh knive*. Bondy was killed and
Davis fatally wounded.
The now town of Lusk, Wyoming Terri
tory, built of tents aud temporary wooden
structures, has been swept out of existence
by a furious wind and hail storm.
A Chicago bakor killed himself to escape
a boycott.
Count Saigo, tho Japanese Secretary of
the Navy, is on a tour of inspection in this
country, and a few days sinco visited the
Washington Navy Yard.
formed.
GovKRNon Hill attended a rocent game
between tho New Yorks and the Detroi’s on
the grounds of the forinor.
^ NS0N i ot tlie Chi ngos. and Connor nnd
G Kourko, of tho Now Yorks, have each
crossed tho 100 base hit line in their ordor.
The New Yorks won three straight game*
»fom both tho Clilcagos anil tho Dotroits on
tho lost Eastern tour of these two Western
clubs.
Rochester has anadvantago in the Inter
national League race by reason of closing
tho seuson at homo with sixteen straight
games.
There are said to be mora and bettor ama
teur nines in Philadelphia tlinn any other
ball city in this country, with tho exception
of St. Louis.
Browning Is playing brilliant ball with
the LouLvllles sinco ho rejoined I lio team. In
two games ho made seven hits with a total of
fifteen bases.
In their drubbing of tho Bostons this year
the Philadelphia* aro wiping out old scores.
Tho Bostous. in two successive sousons, won
twenty-eight game* from them.
It is on the cards that after tlio ending of
tho Southern League season tho Atlanta club
will make a tour through tho Eastern an l
Western Htatos, and will piny all tho ioading
club* in tho country,
TnoMAS au 1 Alvord of tho Bridgeport*,
were lined $50 each for refusing to pfay att
exhibition game on a rocent Sunday, it is
*nid both men will seok to recover by law,as
there is no rule compelling Eastern League
men to play Sunday.
Hardy Richardson, short stop of tho
Dotroits, made a neat do tula play aud as
sisted in making a triple in iiostju a few
days ago. He captured Sutton’s lly, touched
Hovnung, who was playing olt socond bass,
and then out Burdock wh.lo trying to steal
home.
Ok all tho minor organizations tho Inter
national loaguo has boon the most fortuuuto
thus for this season, it can claim tho eight
clubs at tho present timo that it starto.i tlio
season with, an I it is having nn intorostiug
race. Th( ro is nosign of any club weakening;
all will undoubtedly finish tho season aud be
on hand again next year.
PERSONAL MENTION.
amity Pride — Too Snrcaetio — A
Quiet Chat — A lint-gain — Ho
Drought the Bear—Turn-
llii'a Victory.
A Texas boy of about twelve brought
homo a very poor school certificate. The
old man said, os ho looked under the
sofa tor a bootjack:
“I’ll have to apply coercive measures."
“Don’t do it, lather. I’m afraid thoro
will ho a scene, nnd wo don’t care to
have the neighbors suspect that our rela
tions nro not"harmonious.”
Tho neighbors say the boy’s cloqucnco
wns intoned by something that sounded
like hitting a tough beefsteak with tho
flat sido of an ax.—Siftings.
house grounds nnd faces duo south. The
ceremonies opend with npnrndo, in which
n part wits taken by United States naval
; officers, cadets and mariners; all tho
date militia, the Knights of Pythias,
German societies and othor orgnni-ent ions.
Flic unveiling wns according to tho solemn
I it uni of tlio Masonic order nnd wns in
"hut-go of tlio grand lodge of Maryland,
i'iiottias J. Sltryiek, grand marshal, with
, lleausnnt comninndcry Knights Tomplnr,
i » guard of honor. Tlie veil was with-
Too Sni-oastic.
First Dudo—“Olo fellali, what do you
think of Miss Coimnonsonsc?"
Second Dude—“Well, inn denh boy,
mo opinion of her is not vowy fwut-
twing."
First Dudo—“Thatli had. Wat’s tho
wenson you don’t wike her?”
Second Dude—“Too deuced sahcnstic,
don’t yo know. W’y tho other dny we
were out widing, sho and I, and wo
passed by one of tlicso donkeys, a mis-
wablo animal, you unnerstan, and I asked
I lawn at half past two o’clock, when a | her tlio dillorenee between that henst and
national salute was fired front the naval 1 myself. 1 thwought sh n would sny sho
-.(-iidemy. Secretary of State Bayard, didn’t know, and I would tell her that
'tlio was accompanied by the Turkish tho donkey ciwow loads and I dwow pic-
minister, received the statuo from sculp- tures. Yo know I am a sort of nn alitist,
tor Koyscr. an d that would bo a fwine joko, halt
i Jove."
First Dudo—“And wlmt did she sny?”
Second Dudo—“Sho Bnid tho.onwi dif-
wenco sho could see was in the length of
i tho cars.”—Detroit Free Press.
James Stcnrns, who returned to Chat- J
tnnooga, Tenn., Inst week with n pretty A Quiet Clint,
young wife, after mi absence of thirty- J—is n wideawake young business mnn
years in California, believing his first on Stnto street. Sauntering about nt tho
wife dead, only to find the latter alive, is Art Club exhibition recently, ho chanced
HIS TWO WIVES.
A Clinltnnaoin Jinn Finds Illmsell In a Sad
Frcdlcnment.
WASHINGTON.
The President has commissioned James O.
Matthews (colored) of Albany, whose nom
ination was rejected by the Somite, to be
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Co
lumbia.
The President has nnpo’ntod Daniel Ma-
gone, of Ogiioiisbiii-gh, N Y., Collo tor of
the Port of New York, in pla^ *.f E. L.
Hodden, resigned. It is understood Mr.
Hedden's resignation wns requested becaus*
he did not carry out the President’s Civil
Sorvice reform views.
Presidential Postmasters have been ap
pointed us follows: Elias B. Hinkloy, at
Stoningtou, Conn.; George F. Thorpe, at
Westport, Conn.; Francis A. Willard, at
Boonville, N. Y.; Daniel McGory, nt West
Chester, N. Y. • Harlow E. Bundy, at On-
eonla, N. Y.; Jefferson B. Brown, at Key
West. Fla
Mr. Jay Gould spends $310 a day ou his
yai ht Atalanta.
Attorney-General Garland is on his
farm nonr Litt.'e Bock, Ark.
Genehal Bukhman has been tho social
lion of the seas-m in California
Senator Stanford, of California, 1ms flvo
mansions In different parts of tho country,
all olegautly and completely furnished.
Dr. Luring, ex-Commisslonor of Agricul
ture, will found a now town, to ho callo I by
his name, about soven miles from Wash
ington.
Mrs. JonN W. Mackay is tho American
woninn referred to by fumdon Truth a* hav
ing been refusod an invitation to tlie Queou’s
state balL
Governor FiTznuoit Lee, ot Virginia,
will attend tho Steuben County Fair nt Bat li,
N. Y., in September, as the guest of Gon-ral
W. W. Avorell.
CnauNCEY M. Depkiv, Frnnklin B. Gowcn
and Tiionins Powell Fowler are throo rail
road presidents who entered tlie railroad
world from law offices.
General Boulanger, the French Minis
ter of War, aud tho most ta)ked-of man in
Pari;, is tho son of an nttorney at Rcnuo*.
His mothor was English.
Joaquin Miller hiis assume ! tlio editor
ship of tlio Gulden Era. n inaga itio pub
lished at Sau Francisco. It is the sumo mag
azine upon which Bret Harto mode his debut.
Mr. P. T. Barnum says that if ho livos
much longer and retains his present activity
ho will oxuib.t himsoif in a sido tent us “one
of the greatest curiosities Barnum over
handled.”
The secret of M. DeLosseps’s succoss in
raising the Panama Cuunl loan is bis persua
sive powor with tho ladies. Ho has inveigled
no less than 1(1,00(1 of tlio gcutlor sex into his
Bchomc, and still t’.ioy come.
Although Senator Morrill, of Vermont,
Is seveuty-s-von years old and 1m* spout
nearly half hi* life in Congress, it is said that
up to thu time of hi* recent illness lie was
never absent but ono dny from his seal.
The Prince of Walks riocllnos to go out
to the Adelaldo (Australia) Jubilee Expo
sition next year on the ground that, it would
not bo prop-r to absent himself from Eng
land duriug tho jubilee year of tho Queen’s
reign.
John T. Elkins, the brother of Stephen
B., who died suddonly of heart disease while
on a fishing and hunting excursion among
the Ho -kies a few days ago, owned lnrgo
silver nnd cattle interests in Colorado and
had served a term in tho Senate of that
State.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
in nn unfortunate predicament, lie has to meet a friend, a deaf mute, who was
two wives anil don’t know wlint to do
with one of them. Both Stcnrns nnd his
first wife believed each other dead, ns he
hud gone west to seek n homo lor his
family nnd wns never hoard- from, nnd
neither could ho learn one word concern
ing his wife, sho receiving neither letters
nor $1,000, which ho sent her. Stcnrns
wns married in 1840, and tho couplo were
j devoted to each other. Now thnt he has
found her alive, nnd thnt bIio has re
mained true to her troth, plighted forty-
six years ngo, his old love has been re
kindled, nnd yet ho loves his young wife . . .
whom Lo brought from California, and , * .. H “} l0( bcorge!” said tho new-made
she fairly worships her aged husband. ftcqua i„t„’„cc to the new comer, fnmilinr-
Th °y “ rc >'- 1Qg 1“ th ,° house 7 ly, “how do you like tho picturca this
present, but this stato of affairs cannot y CBr p> 1
Inst long, ns both the wives, who at first “Thunder and Mnrs?" exclaimed J—,
were so affectionate toward each other, i„ surprise, “can you talk?”
"Styles, I think that wns oiatne mean;
you know I ain’t no geologist."
But it enmo Tutnhn’s timo to reply,
and ho was equal to tho occasion. He
scorned tho imputation thnt ho did not
know where Liverpool \Vn«, nnd. pro
ceeded to locate it, to the satisfaction of
tho audience. “But,” snid lie, “it would
make no difference if I didn’t know it.
There is ono thing thnt I do know, and
that is my people nnd my dislriot. Now
I want to ask my friend Styles n simple
question, which the representative of this
district in Congress ought to be nb!e to
answer, and if lie docs so at once, right
from his seat nnd without information, I
will promise tocomo right down nnd ask
you to vote for hint.”
Attention was now directed to Styles,
who eyed the speaker complncently and
good-humoredly, nodded for him to pro
ceed.
“Whnre, sir," continued Tumlin, rais
ing his voice to a high pitch and leveling
his finger at his opponent, “where, sir, is
Cooper’s Creek?"
Stylos bccarao confused nnd did not
venture a reply. Tho audience accepted
tho point ns a good one, for every ono
knew that Cooper's Creek wittered tho
most prominent section of tlio county. .
“An, you see,” he conclucd, “he
don’t know anything about tlie county
that ho wnnts to represent. .Now, I
lenvoittoyou to say whether it is best to
elect n mnn who knows nil about Eng
land nnd nothing about his district, or
ono who knows overy cow-puth in tho
district and every creok that should bo
elennnd by Congressional appropriation.”
Tito victory was Tumlin’s. IIo had
enrried the dny, nnd his triumphant elec
tion followed. History snys thnt tho old
Cherokee district wns we'l represented in
Congress duriug his term.—Atlanta Con
stitution.
Ho Drought the Bear.
You know thnt I went up in Northern
Michigan lnstfallon n hunting trip with
throe or four friends. Well, I can tell
yon of a comical little incident which oc
curred to our old negro cook, Jim.
We hnd killed numerous heavers, por
cupine, purtridges nnd pheasants, and a
few deer, but wo had been grievously
conversing with n companion in sign disappointed in getting no hears. Wo
language. Greeting J— cordially tlio followed up overy benr track wo could
deaf inuto drew out a pocket pad
and poncil, and after a brief pencil and
paper conversation introduced his cont-
p iniou by tlio same means and shortly
after withdrew.
J— and tho gentleman discussed tho
pictures pleasantly for twenty niinuts or
more, mcanwhilo covering tho backs of
sundry envelopes nnd scraps, of paper
with their pencilings, when a fourth
chnrncter in this little drama came upon
the scene, a friend of J—’anew-made ac-
uro becoming very jealous. The husband
is in a dilemma and cannot decide which
wifo shall have the exclusive claim to his
affection.
The two baby boys whom ho loft when
Ito wont west ore now grown men and
‘Well, I should sny so,” said tho
gentleman, equally surprised, as he put
away poncil and paper. “Ain’t you deaf
and dumb?"
“Not by a good deal I” J— replied,
thrusting into his pocket nn envelope
have families, while by his^ second wife nearly covered with poncil marks, “but
I'll kill Dummy noxt timo I meet him.”—
lioston Record.
he has a swoet four-year-old girl.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
Fiilnl Itcmi'IK nr n Holler FxploNloii
Wisconsin,
At Oakland, Wis., on Monday n ter- ;
rifiic explosion occasioned by the burst
ing of a boiler in tho carpenter shop of |
I’erinicr & Webster. The boiler house |
was utterly demolished and five men and |
hoys instantly killed.
Nelson Pern, foreman of the working j
crow, was slightly wounded in tlie log, j
and II. F. Bailey, severely. Ho is now iu \
tlie hospital with a fair show to recover, i
The cause of the explosion was a lack of
water in tho boilor. Saturday tho boiler
wns blown
cleaning. As
when it was found that tho injector
would not work. While trying to fix it
tlio explosion occurred.
A Riirffnln.
A street-tinker, surrounded by a bevy
of children, was industriously working
on a demoralized ten kettle, when a very
soiled tramp approached him, and
cautiously drew from under his coat a
tin can, and in a confidential way said:
“My friend, I’m in hard luck; I
dropped this can yesterday, and now
every timo I drink it leuks down on my
coat and looks very untidy. I’m broke
—I spent tho last cent I had for a char
lotte russo. But won’t you just put a
drop of solder over thnt hole?”
v Tho tinsmith was very prompt in in-
off and pumped up after ■ forming him iu plain, unalloyed English,
s usual, the fire wus built, that he didn’t wulk around nil day yelling
YELLOW FEVER AT QUAItlNTINK.
—
; At a meeting of the board of health
nil Monday, a telegram was read report
ing the arrival of the bark Scotian ut the
lower quarantine station, nineteen days
from Colon. She lost twoof her crew on
the passage from fever, and had font-
cases ou hoard. Tho sick were removed
to tin: hospital, nnd twoof the cases were
pronounced yellow fever. The vessel
will be detained at the lower quarantine
station or sent to Ship island.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
A iiurricane which swept over Nancy,
Fiance, did immense damage. Ono soldier
was killed, and many persons wer*injured.
Six men were killed by the collapse of •
railway tunnel in process of construction at
New-Ross, Ireland.
The Hungarian town of Sillein hns beon
destroyed by fire. The property burned in
cludes 403 houses, and the loss is $250,000.
During the rioting which occurred at Bel
fast, Ireland, from Saturday evening to an
early hour Monday morning eleven persons
wore, killed and 130 seriously wounded. The
majority of the injured persons liavo Bhot
wounds. The rioting was resumed on Mon
day, and a numbor of persons were wounded
in an encounter with the soldiers. The city,
owing to the wreck and ruin of houses, pre
sents a deplorable appearance, similar to that
of Paris after the Commune. Thoro wore
5,500 extra military and police in Belfast,
and more wore expected. Fifty rioters were
sent to prison.
The Emperors of Germany and Austria
have had a meeting at Gostein.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Bel
fast and Londonderry, Ireland.
Owing to the discovery of defalcations
reaching $500,000, the British Medical and
General Assurance Association has gone into
bankruptcy.
All tho new British Ministers have now
been re-elected to the House of Commons,
every one unopposed.
The honey ant is now sought as a delicacy
by California epicures.
Eight members of Congress have died
during the present Administration.
The new B jston Directory contains 177,-
605 names or 10,203 more than last year.
Four homing pigeons released in New
York reached Now Haven, eighty-seven
ntilos distant, in sixty-soven minutes.
A Western papor makes the extraordi
nary estimate that 10,000,000 pounds of fish
are taken from tho rivers of Illinois each
year.
The pickle crop on Long Island, which
generally amounts to about 50,000,000 pi-ktes
or cucumbers, will be uoarly doublo this
year.
Recent general army statistics show that
last year twenty-four out of 150 deaths that
occurred among the soldiors were duo to
suicide.
Martha Washington’s portrait will
adorn the new ono dollar silver certificates,
and that of General Hancock the certificates
of two dollars.
Tub chamber in tho White House ozeu-
pio 1 by President Garfield after ho wus
wounded has, it is said, novor been opened
sin e he loft it.
The census just taken in Paris shows that
tho city contains one married woman of
fourteen, three widowers of eighteen and two
widows of sixteen.
When the Texas people get ready to build
n town thoy do it in a hurry. Ballinger, a
now town in Runnels county, is only a month
old, but it has 3,000 inhabitants aud is still
growing.
A tramp arrested in an Illinois town for
Veiidi is still filing anil polishing awayjat
his new opera, “Otollo.”
Henry Irving and Miss Terry aro iu this
country ou a short pleasure trip.
Mme. Janisii will produeo next season
"Diana Losora,” a story of Polish life.
Dellinger, the composer of “Don
Cii-sar,” is at work on a now oporottn, “Lor-
i raine."
The widow of Meyerbeer, tho composer,
who recently died iu Germany left a fortune
of $2,500,003.
! Rubenstkin has definitely refused the
offor of a tour for pianoforte recitals in the
; United States.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett will "revive”
tho old play of “Rionzi" at the Star Theatre
in New York.
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, the wife of Mr.
Joseph Jefferson’s youngest son, has written
a comedy entitled “Glass.”
Mme. Ei-elka Gehster, who has been
very ill egnin at Paris, lias recovered suffi
ciently to reappear iu concert.
During her engagement in Rio Janeiro it
is reported that Mme. Bernhardt played to
houses averaging $5,000 a night.
A beautiful prima donna, of Hungarian
I origin, bos been engaged at the Paris Grand
Opera after a brilliant examination.
Augustin Daly’s New York Companv,
having finished its London engagement,
! will now bo seen In Paris, Berlin uud Ham
burg.
Durino Henry Irving’s presentation of
“Faust” in London, the booksellers of that
city sold over 100,030 copies of the original
drama.
! Miss Adelaide Moore, an English actress
; who besioged many small Western cities last
season, is to sot out in September iu a private
car of very elaborate design, with her name
| in great big gold letters ou the outside,
i Miss Helen Dauvray says: “French au
diences lose interest in the play during the
half-hour intervals between the acts. In my
up alloy-ways, witha furnace iu his hand
and a twcnty-fivc-pound box of toolR
hanging o:i his shoulder, for pleasure.
After tlio tramp hud reflected os only n
tramp can reflect, he snid:
"I’ll tell you what I’ll do if you solder
that hole; I’ll inform you whero there’s
lots of tinkering, and it pays first-rate,
too.”
Tho tinsmith entertained the proposi
tion, and it was a bargain. The can was
once more beer-tight.
“Now where’s all that tinkering you
were talking about?"
The tramp hobbled off a few yards,
and informed him it was over in the
United States navy-yard. Before tlio
tinker could gather himself together, the
tramp jumped on a passing ice-cart nnd
was gently wafted out of Bight.—Puck.
Tomlin's Victory.
The present heated political campaign
recalls a story told of tho spirited contest
for Congress in tho fifties, in the old
Cherokeo district, between Lewis Tum
lin and William Henry Styles. Tho wholo
country wns at the timo agitated over the
Clnyton-Bulwer Treaty which was then
pending. Styles and Franklin were
speaking from every stump in tho dis
trict anu tho former laid great stress on
the idea that it wns necessary that the
district choose as its representative a
learned man and one well posted on tho
current news of both this country and
the Old World.
“Why,” said he in ono of his joint dis
cussions, “wo want a man in Congress
who is sufficiently posted to protect us
from the aggressiveness and grasping
methods of Kngland. We want a man
who can vote intelligently on the issues
arising from this great treaty which is
now pending between, the two countries.
This, my friend, Tumlin can’t do. I will
submit to him a single question, and if
he answers it from his seat without
being informed, I will agree to come
down.”
All eyes were on Tumlin as the speaker
turned to him and pointing at him
asked:
“Where is Liverpool, sir?”
Tumlin sat undisturbed and anwered
with a sneering smile, but ventured no
further response.
“Ah,” continued the speaker, turning
to the audience, “he don’t know. Now
I leave it to you to say whether or not
your representative in Congress should
know the situation of Liverpool!”
i This seemed a clincher aud Styles sat
down with an air of triumph. As he
find, wo set traps, nnd we employed un
Indian hunter to aid us, but no bears woro
to bo found, although it was said that
there were many in tlio neighborhood.
Returning ono afternoon after an unsuc
cessful hunt,dispirited and out of humor,
it was no wonder that when Jim, tho
cook, who was somewhat of a privileged
chnrncter, commenced to poke fun at us
and deride us on tho bear subject, one of
tho fellows beenmo enraged and said:
“Jim, you black devil, get out of the
camp, and if after your bragging you
don't bring nbenr back with you before
dark I’ll give you a sound thrashing.”
“Sartinly, I will," replied Jint, gayly.
He obeyed, and failing to obtain the loan
of a gun from any ono of tho party ho
started out, having no idea in the world
as to where ho was going. Having wan
dered nwny a inilo or so from tho camp
ho lay down under a treo nnd went to
sleep. It was dusk when ho nwoke, nnd
the first thing thnt mot his frightened
gaze was nn immenso black benr resting
on his haunches, about twenty-five yards
nwuy, and watching his victim compla
cently, Tho bewildered and thoroughly
alarmed negro jumped to his feet and
started for the camp, nnd the beast fol-
owo l. It wns a race for life, and Jim’s
only chance wits in his legs, for ho had
not the vestige of a weapon with him.
After half a milo had been Unversed he
looked back and saw thnt tho beast wns
gaining on him rapidly. He threw off
his crip, and, while tho benr Btoppod to
smell it, lie gained a few yards. In this
way tho poor darkey continued throwing
off his out clothing, pisco by piece, now
nnd thon, nnd profiting by the bear’s mo
mentary halt to examine nnd snuff it.
Finally, to Jim’s great delight, he saw
the lights of the camp but a few rods
away, and, having nothing elso that ho
could throw off, ho redoubled his speed,
but the brute gained rapidly and was but
a few feet behind. A series of blood
curdling whoops brought the fellows
from tho tent, and as they reached tho
door, in came Jim, with a big black bear
nt his heels. “Gcinmen,” gasped ho,
“I’s brought back dat b’arl promised
you.”—Washington Post.
iifgoW°80wed > up in 1 " one 3 of “his pockefci *and own theatre I shall never allow an actreM passed Tumlin it is said that the latter
* «* OT-°a < car^iRw 0 more U ^han ehjht^to^et' the remarked to him, sotto voice:
Queen Victoria's Horses.
It is not generally known, says tha
St. James's Gazette,thut the famous crcam-
colorod horses which draw her Majesty's
state enrringo, as they have drawn tho
carriage of her predecessors before her
for the last century uiul a half, belong
to her not as Queen of England, but us 8
princess of tho royal house of Hanover.
The home of the breed for n very long
period has been at Herrenbnusen, a
country residence lying a couplo of miles
outside of the Hanoverian capital. There
may bo seen to this dav a stud of ani
mals. kept by tho Prussian Government
on behalf of the exiled Duke of Cum
berland, out of the revenues of his con
fiscated estate. The breed hits so long
been carefully kept pure that it is rare
(so say the attendants) for anything but
a cream-colored foal to be produced. In
Hanover, on Stato occasions, tho King's
carriage was accustomed to bo drawn by
the creams, while the Queen sat behind
a team of bays. If tlio account of tlie
Btnblc authorities may be believed, the
footmeu who walk at tho head of each
animal arc not merely ornamental. Ex
cept on State occasions these horses
never leave the stable, and they are kept
in such n gross condition that they need
to be watched lest they should suddenly
give way to a desire for instant repose,
and thereby disturb the stately progress
of the Queen’s cortege.
An Electric Sword.
A gentleman of Shanghai has, after
considerable experimenting, invented a
new aud deadly weapon. This is an
electric sword, which, when the point
touches the party attacked, sends a pow
erful shock through him, aud if not im
mediately killing, -will at least put him
hors de combat. The sword is an ordi
nary military sabro, but along its wholo
length is let in a fine platinum wire,
which ends at the foil of tlio weapon. A
small but very powerful-storage battery
is carried strapped about the waist, much
tho sasno ns a cartridge box. Insulated
wires connect the battery with the sword,
and by pressing a button the holder can
complete tho circuit at once.—Shanghai
(China) Courier.